The deer hunter, EMI Films and Universal Pictures ; producers, Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall ; screenplay by Deric Washburn ; directed by Michael Cimino
Type
Label
The deer hunter, EMI Films and Universal Pictures ; producers, Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall ; screenplay by Deric Washburn ; directed by Michael Cimino
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: Rated R
Main title
The deer hunter
Oclc number
39877772
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1978
Responsibility statement
EMI Films and Universal Pictures ; producers, Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall ; screenplay by Deric Washburn ; directed by Michael Cimino
Runtime
183
Summary
Five friends, Michael, Nick, Steven, Stan, and Axel, who are from a small town in middle America, work in the stifling heat and infernal din of a steel mill. They blow off steam after work at a neighborhood tavern. They go deer hunting every fall. One day late in 1968, Michael, Steven, and Nick leave for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela; their wedding reception serves as the friend's farewell party. 30 years after it appeared, this film can still generate intense responses and controversy. Perhaps the best description of the subject was offered by film critic Roger Ebert, who said, "'The Deer Hunter' is said to be about many subjects: About male bonding, about mindless patriotism, about the dehumanizing effects of war, about Nixon's "silent majority." It is about any of those things that you choose, if you choose, but more than anything else, it is a heartbreakingly effective fictional machine that evokes the agony of the Vietnam time."
Table Of Contents
Main titles/Clairton, PA -- Welsh's Lounge -- Wedding -- Deer hunter -- Last round -- Vietnam -- Captured -- Russian roulette -- Escape -- Life left behind -- Coming home -- Veterans -- Fall of Saigon -- Playing the American -- Last rites -- God Bless America/End titles
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Streep, Meryl
- Aspegren, Chuck
- Alda, Rutanya, 1942-
- Walken, Christopher, 1943-
- Spikings, Barry
- Zinner, Peter
- Garfinkle, Louis
- Redeker, Quinn K
- Myers, Stanley
- Deely, Michael
- Stoler, Shirley
- Cazale, John, 1936-1978
- Universal Pictures (Firm)
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Savage, John, 1949-
- E.M.I. Films
- Washburn, Deric
- Cimino, Michael
- De Niro, Robert
- Zsigmond, Vilmos
- Dzundza, George
- Peverall, John
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Subject
- Vietnam Conflict
- DVD-Video discs
- Feature films
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Prisoners and prisons
- Amitié masculine
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Films historiques
- Male friendship
- Longs métrages
- Male friendship -- Drama
- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 + Prisonniers et prisons
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Soldats -- États-Unis
- Déserteurs -- États-Unis
- Relations entre hommes et femmes
- War films
- Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975 -- Drama
- War films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975
- Feature films -- United States
- Veteran reintegration -- United States -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Films de guerre
- Military deserters -- United States
- Feature films
- Viêt-nam -- Histoire -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Drama
- Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Prisoners and prisons -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Soldiers -- United States
- Military deserters -- United States -- Drama
- Historical films
- Soldiers -- United States -- Drama
- Films de fiction
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
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Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Contributor22
- Streep, Meryl
- Aspegren, Chuck
- Alda, Rutanya, 1942-
- Walken, Christopher, 1943-
- Spikings, Barry
- Zinner, Peter
- Garfinkle, Louis
- Redeker, Quinn K
- Myers, Stanley
- Deely, Michael
- Stoler, Shirley
- Cazale, John, 1936-1978
- Universal Pictures (Firm)
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Savage, John, 1949-
- E.M.I. Films
- Washburn, Deric
- Cimino, Michael
- De Niro, Robert
- Zsigmond, Vilmos
- Dzundza, George
- Peverall, John
- Genre9
- Subject38
- Vietnam Conflict
- DVD-Video discs
- Feature films
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Prisoners and prisons
- Amitié masculine
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Films historiques
- Male friendship
- Longs métrages
- Male friendship -- Drama
- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 + Prisonniers et prisons
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama
- Soldats -- États-Unis
- Déserteurs -- États-Unis
- Relations entre hommes et femmes
- War films
- Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975 -- Drama
- War films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975
- Feature films -- United States
- Veteran reintegration -- United States -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Films de guerre
- Military deserters -- United States
- Feature films
- Viêt-nam -- Histoire -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Drama
- Vietnam -- History -- 1945-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 + Prisoners and prisons -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Soldiers -- United States
- Military deserters -- United States -- Drama
- Historical films
- Soldiers -- United States -- Drama
- Films de fiction
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
- Content1
- Actor9
- Author4
- resource.cinematographer1
- Composer1
- Director1
- resource.editorofmovingimagework1
- Is Based On1
- Producer4
- resource.screenwriter1
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